tracking on promises human rights groups america's new defense act which allows suspects to be detained indefinitely. in the guantanamo bay prison. syrian rebels fire on international journalists including the arabic news crew who are covering the conflict in the country. and most britons want to get out of the european union and keep cash on the courts at home the prime minister says he'll be fully euro skeptic during his next election campaign.

thank you for joining us here today. live right here in the russian capital. the u.s. defense act for twenty thirteen has been greeted by harsh criticism from a human rights groups after president obama signed the bill into law despite earlier veto threats the measure of laos the indefinite detention of suspects and backtracks on the closure of guantanamo bay prison or the lower extends the restrictions on transferring detainees i'll have guantanamo for another year and despite obama's promise to close it when he first came to power activists say he's failed the first test of his second term allowing the military to indefinitely detain american citizens over terrorism allegations without charge or trial civil liberties groups are pushing forward with a lawsuit against the measure which they insist is unconstitutional activist times

are in bold and told r.t. that her new law feels like a major threat. i think it's an accident is that my government seriously disapproves i have. to be supporting wiki leaks if you're in a science and also bradley manning and as you probably are you know many people and our government have declared terrorist groups and you know so i'm just. the language is extremely scary and certainly could be used against me and my international team and a veteran congressman dennis cousineau is sore so disappointed with the new national defense act claiming it's part of a tendency to ultimately undermine democracy. there are great human rights concerns here. that people could be held indefinitely violates a constitutional privilege that people have. we have a constitutional challenge here where not only the national. defense

authorization act but the patriot act and other legislation have gradually moved america away from a robust. freedom to a more limited freedom that is based on proscriptions by the government. this is more than problematic because what has always amazed made america america is is the fact that we follow our constitution and we protect our constitution and we protect people against unreasonable search and seizure we protect people against being seized without right to. know the charges against them or a right to an attorney or a right to a trial we have in the past condemned government being involved in spying now we have a much broader. spy network this is something that is profoundly anti-democratic

i have repeatedly taken exception to it as a member of congress. and in another recent move viewed by critics as anti democratic obama extended an act that allows for the wiretapping of americans without a warrant us national security agency whistleblower william binney says nobody is safe from being spied on. b.-i has access to the data collected which is basically the e-mails of virtually everybody in the country. and they have at the f.b.i. has access to it all the congressional members are on on this surveillance to it's not no one's excluded they're all included so yes this can happen to to anyone if they become a target for whatever reason. if they were targeted by the government the government can go in with the f.b.i. or other agencies of the government can go into their database pull all that data

they've collected over them on them over the years and reanalyze it also retroactively analyze everything they've done over the last ten years at least. one part and i'm sure that i i i believe i've been on it for quite a few years yeah so i keep telling them everything i think of them in my e-mail so that they when they read it they'll understand what i think of them. and william a bunny's full interview coming up for you a little bit later today that will be at eighteen forty five g.m.t. . for now though an artsy arabic news crew and several international journalists have come under rebel sniper fire in syria while covering the ongoing conflict there at the r.t. news team were accompanying the military on a counterinsurgency sweep and one of our colleagues come out suck out of it was injured while running for cover at this right here is his account. we arrived at

the damascus suburb early in the morning to report on the syrian army operation we were moving from street to street and when we reached the dock my colleagues and i got caught in crossfire we tried to escape running one after another fearing that armed rebels would notice us a syrian army soldier accompanied us the entire time he constantly kept his on the situation and helped us to escape the gunfire the rebels were firing on us my colleagues and i were wearing bulletproof bass with the word press song them that the firing was very intense and it was difficult to find shelter i ran and fell down i hurt my arms but the syrian army doctors gave me first aid on the scene so i could continue to do my job there were many other correspondents there with me including iranians and syrians one of the syrian cameramen was also slightly wounded like me. meanwhile a car bomb blast has ripped through a crowded petrol station in the syrian capital damascus

a conflicting reports say the number of killed is up to eleven with children among the dead and dozens more civilians were wounded u.s. war correspondent russ baker says such attacks a typical of the western backed rebel fighters trying to bring down president assad if you know i've covered a few dangerous situations myself over the years and we ality is there is no way to be saved in war time the basic thing that we are doing there is we are providing a kind of a gritty tax here for the average person so they can kind of sort of experience that from the far there's going to be a lot of in the way of covert operations a sponsor by outside parties that have this day in haste innings some sort of a resolution of the situation there's no question and we this is pretty obvious on the surface that western countries and including my own have stepped up their involvement and want to get assad out as fast as possible these are the sorts of

thing. that we've seen historically going all the way back to the coup in guatemala in the one nine hundred fifty s. in iran and so forth these sorts of provocations are very very common i think we're going to see them increase until something or other is resolved there pretty clearly i think the western countries don't want any kind of halfway measures they want him out entirely and i think he is not going to do that until the last possible moment. this is r.t. britain without brussels the future majority in the u.k. now want the public is rather disillusioned with the e.u. membership prime minister david cameron has promised to end to the next election with a clear euro skeptic position my colleague bill don't discuss that with his police . use popularity at a very very low amongst the british public at the moment we've just had a poll that asked respondents to grade institutions like in school and the european

union got an average grade of a d. plus from the british public that's not very very high now on a more serious note this recent poll it's really marked a tipping point because for the first time in decades the number of people that say that they would vote for britain leaving the european union is the majority of the british public so it's really turning we're looking at britain telling internation of real euro skeptics at the moment and it's not just the results of one poll we've seen things like for example british support for political parties and to european ones like the u.k. independence party it's at an all time high so lots of bad news for pro europeans at the moment so what is the main grudge the many people are holding against the. well the british public has always been very divided over membership anyway but the past year has been particularly difficult we've seen you know the chronic financial

crisis in the eurozone with a real loss of confidence that grows at the same time at home they have crippling austerity measures so there's a growing resentment towards the vast sums of money that leaves the british treasury and comes straight from the u.k. budget goes straight to brussels every year when very terrible love project cuts. it's not just the money there's also the aspect of the control of north that comes from brussels that many people want to see returned back to westminster so this. goes all the way to the top of the u.k. doesn't it right at the top of political levels. well indeed david cameron the prime minister has just said that the conservative party is going to be going into the next general election in twenty fifteen as a euro skeptic party is an anti european political party that really shows that you know the government's banking on the fact that the british public is are you going to get set up with british membership in and that they're really confident that

that's going to happen what about brussels and how is it responding to the way that britain is giving the cold shoulder. well it can't be too pleasant listening to all this negativity about yourself because there are reports flying around now that certain senior members of the european parliament want to offer britain a junior membership status associate membership and it would in fact be a bit of a demotion whereby britain since its grumbling so much over its membership in the european union it would have much less influence over issues within the european union itself so it's got all the hallmarks of a relationship going quite sour and now it's either going to be a question of who dumps who fussed or perhaps it's salvageable but with public opinion turning towards britain getting out it's going to be harder and harder to stay in. a political death from london now a notorious russian businessman once again in trouble but this time in cambodia

a sort of k. a prolonged ski the t.v. show brawl went viral two years ago was swept into custody for threatening local sailors so what's ahead for you here on the program. also investing in call china pulls billions of dollars into tibet all of this an attempt to quell tension in the rest of region over its rule all those details on more often the short or. something the law is beneath. thousands of meters of the ice and broke. the law. for many.

but dangerous even to those who keep it to distance. just over seven. months ago that was the french president having the people placed their trust in him the new socialist leader. so

a mandate for change is promising economic prosperity to allowing. proving a bit harder to achieve them perhaps he thought as. he found out people are already losing their trust in the. the debate on whether gay marriage should be allowed has split french society for years with protests about the issue often ending in violence with francois hollande coming to power the gay community breathed a sigh of relief but it may have been too soon activists say the new law which is going through parliament in january is not exactly what they've been dreaming of but we are. very happy that has been introduced by the government to open marriage to same sex couples and adoption and. medically assisted procreation but we're still very concerned because. people against same sex

marriage same sex equality are getting very strong including in the parliament. in the initial mayors were obliged to officially register gay couples marital status and that's where many revolted including francois labelle the mayor of central paris. menu system allowing same sex marriages in france and moreover permitting them to adopt children will destroy the foundations of our family institution if we allow this now the next step will be allowing paedophilia and incest. so it seems in this scenario no side is completely happy which puts the french president and his electoral promise under serious pressure from bringing the french troops back from afghanistan to creating more jobs in france and preventing the country from going into austerity during his campaign to become a normal president francois hollande had made many promises some of which now

experts say may backfire against the french leader and if the gay marriage law wasn't divisive enough splurge to impose a seventy five percent tax on the wealthy may become another sticking point several million years have already decided to take their businesses out of france that's called a lot of problems and it does divide the country because a lot of people realize that the rich aren't going so far as financial problems everybody's going to have to pay france's national programs including socialist voters which of course frost all along when he was being elected gave the impression that. this wouldn't happen the latest polls suggest. has dropped by twenty percent winning the election may prove to be the far easier challenge than what a way to the french president now with the economic producers for twenty thirteen in france looking far from optimistic he could face an uphill joran. r.t. reporting from paris. and r.t.

is coming to you live from moscow and russia's president vladimir putin is second to none he was nominated is the most influential man. that's according to a survey by a prominent american think tank losing the first place to nobody i don't know exactly what that means and. also one line for you movie about osama bin laden's demise as the u.s. senate now launching an investigation to determine if the cia gave access to the creators. for now the walls around israel are being extended the country now building a security barrier on its border with syria and israel says it wants to safeguard its citizens from the ongoing syrian conflict the latest construction comes right after a fence sprang up on the border with egypt and the most visible wall however separates israel from the palestinians in gaza supporters say reduces the risk of suicide

attacks on the jewish state the opponents claim it's an attempt to. activist believes israel. dominate the region. israel. doing in the middle east. dealing with the middle east as a dominating power all the time to build. them themselves claiming that the people of. israel has been harmed the whole region. we are building the wall around the palestinian. security. looked at forty percent of. the biggest prison in the world and we know how. the. building a wall on the occupied land so they want to keep this london to keep themselves as

it's not a solution that you keep building walls you need to do peace with the region you have to write to the people israel can't build its future on the expense of the people of the region and that then building walls to protect the to protect themselves walls is not going to protect israel's people's rights and they will keep claiming the right that is leaving it and pushing it for the explosion we witness in the settlers is attacking the palestinians every day and many villages this is north of the jordan valley is evacuated not by now by the israelis there is severe attack on the people in the south of settlers attacking the people in the middle areas so they are russian war on the palestinian people and they want the walls at the end to to bring peace to them stealing the people's land looking them in jails diversity in their life is not going to do to bring peace in any way israel must realize that their years changing and they must they must understand

this change that needs for them to consolidate with the people deal with the people i to i and don't we don't consider yourself as part of europe or you want to isolate yourself and look yourself within the walls from the region you can't do that. all right we'll get to the shortly here in the program for now though the notoriously centric russian businessman. has been released by cambodia north already is after agreeing not to leave the country he was arrested along with two other russians after allegedly threatening local sailors on a boat this company denies the current claims polanski rose to a dubious fame after a video of a brawl on russian t.v. went viral on the internet in two thousand and eleven a heated debate with fellow billionaire alexander level finished. punched a polanski to the floor another person to court on camera saw him eat a piece of time online talk show he had promised to nibble on the net where if the

price of his company's or real estate didn't grow by a quarter we. are let's get to it now as promised the r.t. world update some of the global headlines for you in brief this hour starting with prosecutors in egypt investigating allegations the country's muslim brotherhood illegally received as much as one point five billion dollars from the obama administration two lawyers have filed a complaint against the organization mentioning that x. presidential candidate mitt romney made similar claims during his election campaign and they've also accused the group of using armed militias to stoke violence both during and after the revolution in the country two years ago the muslim brotherhood which backs the egyptian president mohamed morsi has not commented on the accusations. venezuela's president hugo chavez has severe respiratory complications following a lung infection during his cancer treatment in cuba where the vice president

nicolas maduro insisted chavez is not in a coma has been named preferred successor should anything happen to chavez under the constitution the socialist president is due to be sworn in for a third term next week. and in the chilean santiago there have been violent clashes between protesters and police up to twelve arrests being made by demonstrators threw molotov cocktails and started fires following a march commemorating the two thousand and eight killing by police of a young indian the indigenous inhabitants of central and southern chile have clashed with the government for years demanding better rights and an end to a fiction which from what they call their land. let's go straight to live pictures for you right now are scenes from gaza where thousands of supporters of president mahmoud abbas is. celebrating its anniversary arrival party hamas which governs gaza has given its permission to hold the event for the first time since five years

ago president abbas has addressed a rally on a big screen from his west bank headquarters in ramallah the hamas leader khaled mashal urged reconciliation and national unity he did so during his own rallying. now nearly one hundred people in tibet have set themselves on fire in the last nine months in protest over the chinese rule of the territory of beijing has been increasingly criticized by human rights organizations for its handling of protests in the rest of region and now china is turning to economic luers to try and integrate the area by pouring in tens of billions of dollars. of examines whether or not china can expect a return on these investments. basham we love to look at i mean it's quality of china a slogan so widespread in tibet it's even displayed on taxis here everything is an ambiguous mix of modern technology and tradition communism and religion.

six his son is a buddhist monk but ten years ago this elderly man joined the communist. do i knew that the party is breathing new life into our nation and me my digital this is quite a normal scene for us every day believers gather in the city center to pray right outside what is traditions are very strong here but at the same time chinese national red flags are hanging almost on every poor in every building as a constant reminder which country tibet is a part of. and for decades china has been accused of occupying tibet and destroying its culture human rights organizations report numerous abuses there on a daily basis some are even willing to go to the most extreme measures in protest

in almost all instances protests are put down through violence so chinese security personnel will come in and more use violence to basically stop those protests we documented cases where the chinese state news lethal force against tibetans in one town fifteen people were shot legal authorities denial of geishas of human rights violations claiming the so often malaysians are organized from abroad accusing the worst of a full scale media assault on china the united states has been using to bat for. six decades now and says the truman administration co-opted to fight communism and they will continue this because their modus operandi these days seems to be human rights violations. over the years china spent over sixty billion u.s. dollars to build schools roads and water supplies as well as developing industries from beer factories to cultural workshops.

outside the gap but all in one of tibet's most ancient temples when we ask the monk what he thinks of the exile of their spiritual leader the dalai lama he surprisingly said he didn't hear. the government supplies clothes food and other necessities not the dalai lama i couldn't care less where he was. assessing tibet is not easy even on the ground it's hard to see what's true and what's being deliberately shown to foreigners but what's crucial for the next generation of tibetans is that the mix of ancient traditions and beijing's billions. of. people at the school of tibet. ok are certainly hoping in stay with us here on our tables off for the next short break we take a trip to the urals and explore the natural breathtaking beauty of deep down under .

ron paul has rejected the national rifle association safety plan and by safety plan the n.r.a. proposes basically turning every school in america into a prison camp so on this one ron paul i'm with you in the wake of the tragic events at sandy hook elementary and every vice president wayne la pierre called on congress to immediately appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school so yeah what is the solution to isolated incidents of extreme violence make every child live their entire school life at gun point before putting armed guards in schools maybe we should take a look at the fact that more than twenty five percent of american kids are on medication and that's just the kids altering their mental state legally mom is

working two jobs so she isn't around dad is a wall and the t.v. who's the new parent shows kids nothing but images glorify violence for revenge and torture when someone is getting harassed every day at school and maybe getting harassed at home they feel totally alone and they see no future and no escape from the hell that they're in they are going to take drastic measures to get out of it you know in the fifty's sixty's and seventy's there were still plenty of guns and there were no armed officers in schools but there were no shootings society changed and school violence erupted society is what needs to change to call them things back down but that's just my opinion.

a small and ancient russian merchant city sits at the confluence of three rivers. it's not quite europe but it's not a nation either. constantine's a native of congo he heads off to work each day at the same time. constant in has been conducting independent research for ten years now his profession is out of the ordinary for most people but it's quite natural for those living in the urals it mixes danger with excitement. the city's protected reserve early morning enjoys a few precious moments before being plunged into darkness. i constantine how are things at the site everything is alright no problem i'll give you the keys a group of scientists is arriving today and we should check everything carefully ok them. ok cool.